Looking Up
Yesterday I walked by from our office (here, at Quebec and East 2nd) back to my apartment, along False Creek (MapQuest more or less gets it right). I happened to have my camera with me, so I took a bunch of photos that ended up being all about sun, glass, reflection and refraction. Nothing earth-shatteringly brilliant. If nothing else, it was a heck of a nice day.
I note that Flickr shrank all of my photos to a maximum of 500 pixels wide. Is that a limitation of a free account, or a setting I can modify? Regardless, if you want a screensaver size version of the ScienceWorld TELUSphere photo, here it is.
October 28th, 2004 at 9:37 pm
Take a look at item #7 on Flickr’s FAQ page. They mention a ‘Large’ size and a Pro account.
http://www.flickr.com/help.gne#18
-Chris
October 28th, 2004 at 9:40 pm
Thanks for that. The text is rather silly, isn’t it?
# 75×75 pixels
# 120 pixels (on the longest side)
# 240 pixels
# 500 pixels
# Large
# And the original size (if you hold a pro account)
Why does the size jump from pixel measurement to ‘Large’? So that ‘Large’ can be a floating number, which they can adjust based on demand? All of the photos I uploaded were 800 pixels on the longer side. Does that qualify as ‘Large’ or ‘original’? The latter is only available to pro account, which is fair enough.
October 29th, 2004 at 12:38 am
The larges seem to be 1024px on the largest size. The reason they might not specify it where you read that is because it was written before they offered pro accounts and they hadn’t determined what “large” would be yet.
Your 800×600px images would be “original” if you had a pro account. Since they’re too small for the ‘large’ size it just gets dropped.
October 29th, 2004 at 1:19 am
they need to wash that sphere.
October 29th, 2004 at 9:27 am
Thanks for that, Kyle.
October 29th, 2004 at 7:48 pm
What? Really? TELUSphere? When did that happen? Is it all about the science of phones now?
October 29th, 2004 at 8:18 pm
Chanelle: Follow the bouncing bucks: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=9a665069-0b72-49e2-8e55-ca1091856ba5.
October 29th, 2004 at 11:06 pm
I checked my flickr page - and it’s still letting me use larger sizes (free acount too)
Take a look-
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1137514&size=o
I’m probably next for the scale back.
October 29th, 2004 at 11:07 pm
ooops - here’s the real URL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1137514_1b322422b3_o.jpg
October 31st, 2004 at 1:31 am
You’d think that TELUS would have paid to have the dome washed up and polished for the new name. That thing is filthy.